DOCBOOK: Names and addresses

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

I have a long standing action item to revisit name and address markup.
The most often reported problem with the current markup is that there's
no way to associate an email address with a person independent of their
organizational affiliation.

No obvious right answer is occurring to me, so I thought I'd post my
thoughts and see what everyone else thinks. Comments, please.

Our current tags are

  author ::=
  ((honorific|firstname|surname|lineage|othername|affiliation|
    authorblurb|contrib)+)

  affiliation ::=
  (shortaffil?,jobtitle*,orgname?,orgdiv*,address*)

I think we can break "personname" out of this:

  personname ::=
  ((honorific|firstname|surname|lineage|othername)+)

Then authors (editors, etc) might have this content model:

  author ::=
  ((personname, personblurb, affiliation+, email+, address+))

Where personblurb replaces authorblurb.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | A hen is only an egg's way of
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | making another egg.--Samuel Butler
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | (II)